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Sounding ChildhoodMain MenuPart 1: Hymns & Religious SongsPart 2: Songs for School and PlayPart 3: Animal Welfare (Bands of Mercy) SongsPart 4: Christmas CarolsChristmas Carol choir December 2023Part 5: Folk SongsWorks CitedAbout the Author
"A Finished Nest" (Eddy #70)—words Anon, music Paul Ambrose. Another song in the genre of bird protection, in this case the vogue of nest-collecting, both children and adults. It ends, “Spare the feathered woodland rover; / Let him work and love and sing!” Charles Babcock was inspired to organize Bird Day in the United States in 1894 because of children’s “love of feather ornamentation so heartlessly persisted in by thousands of our women, and the mania for collecting eggs and killing birds so deeply rooted in our boys, are legacies of barbarism inherited from our savage ancestry” (both qtd. in his “Bird Day: How to Prepare for It” 1901, Project Gutenberg).
1media/a finished nest_thumb.jpg2023-06-15T11:17:25-07:00Beth South9cba9d75a82488a4e4c1af1d58b23357ce6b4889A finished nest score1from Songs of happy life : for schools, homes, and bands of mercy by Sarah Eddy (1898). https://archive.org/details/happylife00eddy/page/6/mode/2upmedia/a finished nest.jpgplain2023-06-15T11:17:25-07:00Beth South9cba9d75a82488a4e4c1af1d58b23357ce6b4889